Third Hay-on-Wye Poetry Jamboree

Thursday 2nd - Saturday 4th June 2011

2nd June

• 6.30 - 7.30pm: festival launch reception
• 7.30 - 9.15 pm: Ralph Hawkins, Allen Fisher

3rd June

• 11am - 12pm: film and poetry - Colin Still
• 2 - 4pm: Helen Lopez, John Freeman, Angela Gardner, Rhys Trimble, Paul Green
• 5 - 6pm: lecture - Robert Sheppard
• 7.30 - 9.15pm: Carol Watts, Sean Bonney

4th June

• 11am - 12pm: Frances Presley, Glenn Storhaug
• 2 - 4pm: Gavin Selerie, Tiffany Atkinson, David Annwn, Zoë Skoulding with Poetry Wales
• 7.30 - 9.15pm: Kelvin Corcoran, Maggie O'Sullivan
• 9.30 - 10.30pm: grand finale - Chicken of the Woods (bluegrass band)

All Saturday in Salem Chapel proper, Elysium Gallery in collaboration with Hay Poetry Jamboree presents Bus Stop Cinema - a festival of short films.

Oriel Gallery of Contemporary Arts, Salem Chapel, Bell Bank, Hay on Wye

Admission £5 / £3 (conc.) (for events at starting at 7.30pm)

Admission is free to all other events.

Update on Sunday 24 April, 2011 by Openned

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Sheffield Poetry Festival

Friday 1st - Sunday 3rd April

Download the programme of events here.

Highlights include:

• 2nd April, 5pm Geraldine Monk, Helen Mort, Ben Wilkinson
• 3rd April, 1pm Making it up: The Origins and Accidents of Poetry - Kelvin Corcoran joined by Peter Riley
• 3rd April, 4pm The Ground Aslant: Radical Landscape Poetry - Peter Riley, Mark Goodwin, Harriet Tarlo

Venues, maps and admission fees can be found on the Sheffield Poetry Festival website.

via The Other Room

Douglas Oliver Conference

Saturday 5th December

Conference 10.50am - 5.30pm

Reading 6pm - 8pm

This conference examines the work and influence of Douglas Oliver including his earliest writings, Oppo Hectic, The Harmless Building and In the Cave of Suicession; unpublished letters to Peter Riley; his theories of prosody and of politics; his visual work in The Diagram Poems; and the final Arrondissements project on the psycho-historical landscapes of Paris. 

With an evening Poetry Reading by:

• Kelvin Corcoran
• Ralph Hawkins
• Simon Jarvis
• Alice Notley

Admission £10 (all-day ticket) / £6 (unwaged) / £4 (evening reading only)

For more information and a registration form, email the conference organisers.

LTB 10, Lecture Theatre Building (off Square 3), University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester C04 3SQ

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